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Also: System Preferences -> Sharing -> Services -> FTP Access (checked)
Authored by: rjamest on Apr 27, '06 07:59:26AM

I had a devil of a time using any FTP program (CLI, DreamWeaver, NVu, etc.)outbound from my Macs running 10.4 until, maybe this is obvious to everyone else, I enabled the FTO service in the Sharing system preferences:

System Preferences -> Sharing -> Services -> FTP Access (checked)

Until I made this change I could login but not get results from commands (such as 'dir'), presumably because the 8xxxx ports are blocked when FTP Access service is not allowed in Sharing.

Quite the frustration amongst me and my colleagues until we figured it out!



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Also: System Preferences -> Sharing -> Services -> FTP Access (checked)
Authored by: adrianm on Apr 27, '06 09:26:10AM

I never had this problem, but probably because I set up passive FTP in the network preferences (I don't have a Mac near me at the time so can be sure where exactly).

Maybe some apps don't respect this setting and try to use active FTP ?



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Also: System Preferences -> Sharing -> Services -> FTP Access (checked)
Authored by: rjamest on Apr 27, '06 04:47:45PM

Ya know... after sleeping I remembered that the problem was that the iptables rules on the server blocked the 8xxxx ports.

Sorry for the sleep-deprived confusion!

/me slinks away hopefully unnoticed



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